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A. W. JACKSON. Spring Bed-Bottom. Nd. 224,337. Patented Feb. 10, I880.

I I I I I I I l I I I I I I I I I l I I ITN SS S; I IN F'TU F I UNITESTATE PATENT OFFICE.

AMARIAH WQJAOKsoN, or INDLANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

SDPRFING BED-BOTTOM;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,337, dated February10, 1880.

Application filed August 5, 1879. I i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMARIAH W. J AGKSON, of Indianapolis, in the countyof Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 7 Theobject of my invention is to provide a cheap, durable, and convenientspring for bedbottoms.

My invention consists of the new construe tion and arrangement ofdevices and the new combination of elements which are deemed essentialin my newly-organized spring bed-bot tom, as will be hereinafter firstfully described in the specification, and then set forth in the claim.

strips of hoop iron or wire, B, which are stretched across the top andbent around the ends of the slat, as at a, and securedby nails, screws,or other appropriate'fastenings .to the bottom of each end of the bentslat, as shown in Fig. 3, thus forming a slat of great elasticity.Several of these slats thus prepared are united together by thecross-bars G C, so as toform a spring bed-bottom, as in Fig. l, which ischeap, durable, and strong, and comfortable to lie on.

What I claim as new is As an article of manufacture, a spring bedbottomcomposed of a series of bent slats, A, having one or more strips ofhoop-iron or wire,

B, stretched across and secured at the ends of the slats, and thecross-slats O 0, made fast to the bent slats, as shown, for thepurposespeci- AMARIAH w. JACKSON.

Witnesses E. O. FRINK, G. H. BENNETT.

